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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many high school students, including Harjo, were members of the all-Indian dance and drama troupe?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. Who promised to send Harjo a bus ticket to Tahlequah?
(a) Her Cherokee boyfriend.
(b) Her advisor.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

3. Harjo's Cherokee boyfriend had a daughter named Ratatonia who was how old at the time Harjo traveled to Tahlequah?
(a) 2.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

4. Harjo states that many Indian women who gave birth at the Indian hospital unknowingly signed a form giving doctors permission to take what action?
(a) To give an epidural.
(b) To perform a Caesarean section.
(c) To perform an episiotomy.
(d) To sterlize them.

5. Who or what does Harjo now believe was the source of her decision to take an acting class?
(a) Her friend.
(b) The knowing.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?

2. What instrument did Harjo's music teacher forbid her to play, causing her to quit the band?

3. Which person did Harjo consider the only one who had ever stood up for her against her stepfather?

4. When Harjo located Lupita at the party, Lupita joked that she had been on what planet?

5. What objects did the troupe have thrown at them as they walked along the road in one particular town?

Short Essay Questions

1. What statement does Harjo make about the veracity of the italicized portion of the part entitled North?

2. What obstacle briefly stood in the way of Harjo's ability to tour the Pacific Northwest with her troupe of actors and dancers?

3. What is the significance of the release form Harjo signed at the Indian hospital when she had her first child?

4. In what way did Harjo feel she had let Mrs. Wilhelm down in the part of the text entitled North?

5. What punishment did Lupita and Harjo receive for their transgression at school near the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?

6. In what way is the theme of a cyclical existence depicted in the epigraph Harjo includes for the part of the text entitled West?

7. What secret was Harjo keeping by the time she came back from touring the Pacific Northwest with the troupe of dancers and actors?

8. What happened to Louis Ballard about five years before the publication of Crazy Brave?

9. What types of coping methods did Harjo's peers use to deal with the negative effects of trauma?

10. In what town did the members of the Indian acting and dancing troupe experience blatant racism and what form did it take?

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